ronde

/\ʁɔ̃d\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,097

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

ronde is aFrenchnoun. It means: Surveillance ; tour de garde. Pronounced \ʁɔ̃d\. It ranks #4,097 in French word frequency. Often confused with rose and rude.

Key facts for ronde
PropertyValue
Headwordronde
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɔ̃d\
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,097
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ronde in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ronde is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɔ̃d\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,097 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ronde, with forms such as "ornde", "rnode", and "rodne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rose", "rude", "rote", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ronde, spelled R-O-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Surveillance ; tour de garde.
  2. 2
    Symbole de solfège, de forme circulaire, indiquant une note de 4 temps. Une ronde vaut deux blanches ou quatre noires.
  3. 3
    Femme dont la silhouette a des formes généreuses.
  4. 4
    Mouvement de danse traditionnelle ou enfantine qui se présente sous forme de cercle.
  5. 5
    Manège, succession, défilé, procession.
  6. 6
    Caractère d'imprimerie dont les lettres ont des jambages courbes, des panses et des boucles arrondies.
  7. 7
    Dans une compétition, ensemble des parties ou des matchs qui se jouent simultanément.
  8. 8
    Groupe de jeannettes.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ornde,rnode,rodne,rondde,roned,ronnde,rronde

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ronde

Misspelling Variants of "ronde"

ornde5rnode5rodne5rondde6roned5ronnde6rronde6
Misspelling Variants of "ronde"

Frequency rank: #4,097 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ronde"?
"ronde" is spelled R-O-N-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɔ̃d\.
What does "ronde" mean?
As a noun, "ronde" means: Surveillance ; tour de garde.
What words are commonly confused with "ronde"?
"ronde" is commonly confused with "rose", "rude", "rote". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ronde"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ronde" is \ʁɔ̃d\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ronde" come from?
"ronde" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.